Geordie (1958–2023)
Killing Joke’s Geordie has died and I am absolutely gutted about it. He didn’t really sound like anything else on earth, and his playing style practically invented a genre. I first saw them in 1989, and they were never anything…
Bernard Cribbins (1928-2022)
Other people will write more eloquently than me and from more personal experience of working with him, and 93 was a fine old age and he was working until a few weeks ago, but what a sad loss Bernard Cribbins…
Some thoughts about Andrew Fletcher and Depeche Mode
I feel like I’ve got a complicated relationship with Depeche Mode now. For years and years they were by far my favourite band, the one I was absolutely fanatical about. I mentioned this in my newsletter the other week, that…
Bug Brain Check-Out?
I felt a real pang of sadness the other day when I went to a corner of the internet I’ve visited intermittently for two decades to find that it had disappeared. It has stirred up a complicated bundle of emotions….
Richard H Kirk (1956-2021)
Terrible news today that Richard H Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire has died. I first got into their stuff with the Code LP in 1987, which I think many people regard as past-their-prime, but for me, with Adrian Sherwood at the…
Clive Sinclair (1940-2021)
It’s 2021 and this is the desktop photo I put on every computer I own and that’s all you need to know about how I feel about the news that Clive Sinclair has died.
Dawn Foster
I find myself absolutely grief-stricken today after the news broke yesterday that Dawn Foster had died. She was just 34. I tweeted yesterday: “Other people will say more profound things but one of the nicest things about working with Dawn…
Stuart O’Connor
I was very sorry to hear that Stuart O’Connor, who was known as ScreenjabberStu on Twitter, has passed away in Australia. He was a colleague of mine who worked on the Guardian’s tech, media & games coverage in the early…
Katie Coxall
I was very upset this morning to learn that Katie Coxall passed away yesterday. If you’ve been on the same corners of the internet as me you’ll undoubtedly know her work as mushybees, and she was the person behind the…
Dan Martin and Seb Patrick
Like a lot of people I’m finding it hard to process grief for this strange new category of people that have been introduced into our lives – people like Dan Martin and Seb Patrick, both of whom have suddenly passed…